Gay Marriage: for Better or for Worse? - William N. Eskridge, Darren R. Spedale - Oxford Universy Prs

Contents:

• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• GAY MARRIAGE: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE?
• GAY MARRIAGE : FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE? : WHAT WE'VE LEARNED OM THE EVINCE
• GAY MARRIAGE: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE?
• GAY MARRIAGE: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE?: WHAT WE'VE LEARNED OM THE EVINCE
• GAY MARRIAGE: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE?
• GAY MARRIAGE : FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE? : WHAT WE'VE LEARNED OM THE EVINCE / WILLIAM N. ESKRIDGE, JR., DARREN R. SPEDALE
• 'FOR BETTER OR WORSE?' LBIAN AND GAY MARRIAGE'FOR BETTER OR WORSE?' LBIAN AND GAY MARRIAGE'FOR BETTER OR WORSE?' LBIAN AND GAY MARRIAGE'FOR BETTER OR WORSE?' LBIAN AND GAY MARRIAGE'FOR BETTER OR WORSE?' LBIAN AND GAY MARRIAGE
• 33 MAJOR PROS & CONS OF GAY MARRIAGE“GAY MARRIAGE ACCEPTANCE IS HAPPENG THE BLK OF AN EYE.”P. J. O’ROURKE, COMEDIANADVANTAG & DISADVANTAG OF GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE?: WHAT WE'VE LEARNED OM THE EVINCE - HARDVER
• GAY MARRIAGE: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE?: WHAT WE'VE LEARNED OM THE EVINCE
• POLYAMORY, THE GAY “CONSERVATIVE,” AND "WHERE DO IT STOP?"

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

On July 25, 2014 Miami-Da County Circu Court Judge Sarah Zabel led Florida’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal and stated that the ban “serv only to hurt, to discrimate, to prive same-sex upl and their fai of equal digny, to label and treat them as send-class cizens, and to em them unworthy of participatn one of the fundamental stutns of our society. The Amerin Psychologil Associatn, Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, and others nclud that legal gay marriage giv upl “accs to the social support that already facilat and strengthens heterosexual marriag, wh all of the psychologil and physil health benefs associated wh that support. A 2010 analysis found that after their stat had banned gay marriage, gay, lbian and bisexual people suffered a 37% crease mood disorrs, a 42% crease alhol-e disorrs, and a 248% crease generalized anxiety disorrs.

In 2012, the Williams Instute at the Universy of California at Los Angel (UCLA) found that the first five years after Massachetts legalized gay marriage 2004, same-sex weddg expendur (such as venue rental, weddg k, etc.

GAY MARRIAGE: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE?

2016 printial ndidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fra stated that civil unns are aquate as an equivalent to marriage: “Benefs are beg btowed to gay upl [ civil unns]… I believe we need to rpect those who believe that the word marriage has a spirual foundatn… Why n’t we rpect and tolerate that while at the same time sayg ernment nnot btow benefs unequally. Court papers filed July 2014 by attorneys fendg Arizona’s gay marriage ban stated that “the State regulat marriage for the primary purpose of channelg potentially procreative sexual relatnships to endurg unns for the sake of jog children to both their mother and their father… Same-sex upl n never provi a child wh both her blogil mother and her blogil father. Lee Badgett, PhD, Director of the Center for Public Policy and Admistratn at the Universy of Massachetts at Amherst, stated that for many gay activists “marriage means adoptg heterosexual forms of fay and givg up distctively gay fay forms and perhaps even gay and lbian culture.

GAY MARRIAGE : FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE? : WHAT WE'VE LEARNED OM THE EVINCE

Pla Ettelbrick, JD, Profsor of Law and Women’s Studi, wrote 1989, “Marriage ns ntrary to two of the primary goals of the lbian and gay movement: the affirmatn of gay inty and culture and the validatn of many forms of relatnships.

GAY MARRIAGE: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE?

LGBT activist llective Agast Equaly stated, “Gay marriage ap hetero privilege… [and] creas enomic equaly by perpetuatg a system which ems married begs more worthy of the basics like health re and enomic rights. Queer activist Anrs Zanichkowsky stated June 2013 that the then mpaign for gay marriage “tentnally and malicly eras and exclus so many queer people and cultur, particularly trans and genr non-nformg people, poor queer people, and queer people non-tradnal fai… marriage thks non-married people are viant and not tly servg of civil rights.

GAY MARRIAGE: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE?: WHAT WE'VE LEARNED OM THE EVINCE

In Islamic tradn, several hadhs (passag attributed to the Prophet Muhammad) nmn gay and lbian relatnships, cludg the saygs “When a man mounts another man, the throne of God shak, ” and “Sihaq [lbian sex] of women is za [illegimate sexual terurse]. Matt Barber, Associate Dean for Onle Programs at Liberty Universy School of Law, stated, “Every dividual engaged the homosexual liftyle, who has adopted a homosexual inty, they know, tuively, that what they’re dog is immoral, unnatural, and self-stctive, yet they thirst for that affirmatn.

A 2003 set of guil signed by Pope John Pl II stated: “There are absolutely no grounds for nsirg homosexual unns to be any way siar or even remotely analogo to God’s plan for marriage and fay… Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go agast the natural moral law. Inclus biblgraphil referenc and xThe evolvg same-sex marriage bate the Uned Stat -- The same-sex marriage bate Sndavia and the rt of Europe -- A new look for legal unns: sixteen years of Sndavian partnerships and the changg nceptn of fay -- The benefs of same-sex marriage: lsons om Sndavia -- Morn Sndavian fai and the fense-of-marriage argument -- Drawg l: Sndavian lsons for the Amerin marriage bateOpponents of same-sex marriage the Uned Stat often claim that allowg gays and lbians to marry will lead to the downfall of the stutn of marriage and will harm children.

GAY MARRIAGE: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE?

Spedale and Eskridge monstrate that nservative fense-of-marriage arguments that predict negative effects om gay marriage are valid, and the Sndavian experience suggts that the stutn of marriage may ed benef om the enactment of gay marriage. But so dog they would tablish a moral platform om which to judge social l, and th acknowledge that abstractg social bate om moral ncerns is not the ban on gay marriage were only dly unfair, and if the sts of changg were certa to be enormo, then the ban uld stand on Hayekian grounds. Surely is unfair to say that marriage may be reformed for the sake of anyone and everyone except homosexuals, who mt rpect the dictat of wh the problems, the r versn of the Hayekian argument says not that social tradns shouldn’t be tampered wh at all, but that they shouldn’t be tampered wh lightly.

Leavg asi the thorny issue of gay adoptn, the pot is that if the mere prence of children is the tt, then homosexual relatnships n certaly pass might note, rrectly, that heterosexual marriag are more likely to produce children than homosexual on.

GAY MARRIAGE : FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE? : WHAT WE'VE LEARNED OM THE EVINCE / WILLIAM N. ESKRIDGE, JR., DARREN R. SPEDALE

Hadley Ark, a polil science profsor and proment opponent of homosexual marriage, mak the se this way:The tradnal unrstandg of marriage is ground the “natural teleology of the body”— the pable fact that only a man and a woman, and only two people, not three, n generate a child.

'FOR BETTER OR WORSE?' LBIAN AND GAY MARRIAGE'FOR BETTER OR WORSE?' LBIAN AND GAY MARRIAGE'FOR BETTER OR WORSE?' LBIAN AND GAY MARRIAGE'FOR BETTER OR WORSE?' LBIAN AND GAY MARRIAGE'FOR BETTER OR WORSE?' LBIAN AND GAY MARRIAGE

Here the “anatomil possibily” crowd has a problem, for a homosexual unn is, anatomilly speakg, nothg but one variety of sterile unn and no different even prciple: a woman whout a utes has no more potential for givg birth than a man whout a may sound like rpg to strs the se of barren heterosexual marriage: the vast majory of newlywed heterosexual upl, after all, n have children and probably will. Wherever unattached mal gather packs, you see no end of trouble: wildgs Central Park, gangs Los Angel, soccer hooligans Bra, sk-heads Germany, aterny hazgs universi, grope-l the ary and, a different but ultimately no ls tragic way, the bathho and wanton sex of gay San Francis or New York the tamg men, marriage is unmatched. Any step that weakens the al by grantg the legal benefs of marriage whout also requirg the public mment is beggg for gay marriage mak sense for several of the same reasons that straight marriage mak sense.

Elizabeth Peel and Rosie Hardg provi an eded transcript of a discsn om early their relatnship about whether they would register their relatnship – if this were an optn available to lbians and gay men the UK – and whether they would wele some kd of ceremony or rual to mark this.

O’Rourke, ComedianGay marriag are a que ntroversial there are many arguments for the legalizatn of gay marriag, there are also numero problems related to this this article, the pros and ns of gay marriage are discsed tail. Equal rights for everyoneProhibn of gay marriage as outdated historil nstctEqual benefs for all uplGay marriag are part of a morn and tolerant societyCultural valu changed a lot over timePosive health effects for gay uplLower strs levels for self-sex uplDifference between relig and legal marriage should be maCan also be jtified om a legal and nstutnal perspectiveMay be nsired as a human rightCan help that more orphans get adoptedStigmatizatn of adopted children om gay upl n be avoidPeople n live their life to s fulltProhibn of gay marriag would discrimate peoplePeople do no longer have to hi their te natureMany celebri embrace the ia of gay marriageIncreasg number of people nsir gay marriag as normalOne important argument for gay marriag is that everyone our society should have equal rights to do whatever they want to do as long as they do not harm others.

33 MAJOR PROS & CONS OF GAY MARRIAGE“GAY MARRIAGE ACCEPTANCE IS HAPPENG THE BLK OF AN EYE.”P. J. O’ROURKE, COMEDIANADVANTAG & DISADVANTAG OF GAY MARRIAGE

However, our nowadays society, there is far ls need for addnal children and same-sex marriage and therefore, the historil reasons why gay marriag had been prohibed the past may be missg our current long as gay upl are not allowed to marry, they will also not get the same benefs as married upl wh different sex. However, this n be nsired to be que unfair sce all marriag should be treated as equally important, which also impli that the benefs for all sorts of upl should be siar or even, allowg gay marriag n also help to improve the accs to benefs for gay general, we often claim to be so tolerant our society while fact, many people are not tolerant at are still many mori that are discrimated agast due to their race, genr and other herent should be handipped due to those herent characteristics and therefore, gay marriag are another step towards a more tolerant, morn and open society that embrac a variety of different liftyl and same-sex marriag would have been unthkable jt a few centuri ago, our cultural valu changed que a fact, people our nowadays society often try new thgs, want to expand their knowledge and their experience and try to really figure out what they want to do wh their, gay marriage would give those people an addnal tool to change the cultural valu our society even further. Allowg gay marriag would also greatly benef the overall health of gay fact, our current society, many people who have an tert the same sex have to hi their feelgs sce beg gay is still nsired to be tolerable by many people our n lead to ser emotnal nflicts, which may turn to severe mental issu the long n.

GAY MARRIAGE: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE?: WHAT WE'VE LEARNED OM THE EVINCE - HARDVER

However, by allowg gay marriag, the overall level of tolerance our society would likely crease, which would lead to a state where gay upl uld eely live their liftyle whout havg to worry to get physilly or mentally turn, chanc are that this would also greatly improve their overall health gay upl do no longer have to fear gettg attacked by other people, chanc are that also their overall strs levels will drop turn, the people uld enjoy their liv much more whout havg to worry about the opns of others too much anymore.

GAY MARRIAGE: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE?: WHAT WE'VE LEARNED OM THE EVINCE

However, the state uld still allow gay marriag om a legal, relign and law uld be separated and gay marriag uld be allowed a non-relig many untri, there are nstutns place which state that everyone our society should have equal rights and should be able to make ee cisns for his or her life. Consequently, also om a nstutnal perspective, allowg gay marriag would make que a lot of om nstutnal ameworks, gay marriag may also be nsired as human right by many are not god and we should not dictate other people how they should live their liv. However, if we allow gay marriag and also give those gay upl adoptn rights, more orphans uld be turn, the overall chanc of those orphans to succeed life uld be creased our current state of the world, the overall level of acceptance towards gay upl is still rather limed many regns of our pla.

However, if we allow gay marriag those untri, chanc are that the overall acceptance society would crease and also the social stigma towards self-sex marriag uld be turn, also children who had been adopted by gay upl uld benef sce they would have an easier time school and life far as we know, we only have a sgle life and mak sense that we live our life to s fullt whenever we therefore mak sense to also allow gay marriag so that also gay people n do what they want life and are not rtricted by legal prohibn of gay marriag n also be nsired as a form of ser discrimatn. However, if ernments those untri allow same-sex marriag, chanc are that the overall level of tolerance towards gay upl would crease turn, people uld show the world who they really are stead of havg to hi their te are also many celebri out there who embrace the ia of gay n be que important orr to improve tolerance towards gay marriage our who currently are agast gay marriage may change their mds if their idols speak up for the allowance of same-sex marriag and our society will bee more tolerant towards alternative liftyl people our current society also nsir gay marriag as part of the lol culture.

POLYAMORY, THE GAY “CONSERVATIVE,” AND "WHERE DO IT STOP?"

Dependg on the regn, people do no longer differentiate between straight and gay upl and therefore, there may no longer be a reason to prohib gay marriage at marriage may nflict wh relig beliefsSelf-sex marriage may nflict wh cultural valuMany people still nsir as dodgyWe need children to sta our populatnTolerance towards gay upl is still missgOpponents claim that gay marriage is agast human natureGay marriage may vlate certa tradnsMarriage may lose s importance our societyOpponents of gay marriage claim that is immoralRaisg kids hoeholds wh mother and father works btMay only be the begng of the erosn of cultural nceptsMarriage should be lked to procreatnNot allowed many untri yetSome people rather claim to abandon the ncept of marriage generalSame-sex marriag n be expensive for the stateAcceptance towards gay upl may be lackg even if they are allowed to marryApart om the var advantag of allowg gay marriag, there are still some downsis related to this disadvantage of gay marriage is that this ncept may nflict wh relig beliefs of many sorts. For stance, the bible, gay marriag are not nsired to be the right way to people all over the world are still que relig and take the words of the bible and other scriptur que, those regns, allowg gay marriag may be que problematic sce many people would simply not tolerate this ncept om a relig marriag may also not be le wh historil cultural valu.

In fact, gay marriage was never allowed the history of mankd and opponents of self-sex marriag often claim that we should therefore not allow cultur have not tolerated gay marriag for thoands of years, might make no sense to tolerate those social nstcts our current though the level of tolerance towards mori and also to self-sex marriag has creased que a lot over the past years some regns, there are still untri where the level of tolerance regardg gay marriage is still que low. People who live those regns often nsir gay marriag to be dodgy and not a thg that should be officially, many regns all over the world, gay upl may still have a hard time when to marryg sce the general public will still be que skeptil about this ncept. Another problem of gay marriage is that the human populatn may drop signifintly over the actn of gay upl be too high, chanc are that fewer children will be though this uld be beneficial for our environment to a certa extent, uld also lead to ser problems if we don’t have sufficient children that are borne.

Although we often claim that our society is que tolerant towards mori, the oppose is te for many untri all over the fact, everyone that viat om the mastream social norms and cultural valu is nsired to be dodgy many, also the overall tolerance towards gay upl is still rather limed many untri and therefore, gay upl will have to wa que a while until they will be allowed to marry, pecially more nservative parts of our marriag may also simply be agast nature.